Yesterday Donald Trump made a speech in which he again delivered an ultimatum, stating that if money was not allocated for the construction of the wall with Mexico, then from February 15 the shutdown will begin again. The head of the White House also voiced optimistic assessments about future negotiations with China and that concrete measures would be taken to make a real change in the current situation.
The US dollar continues its rally and the dollar index almost reached 96.00.
US stock markets also continue to show growth since the beginning of this year and the Dow Jones index exceeded 25.400. US stock indices led the world markets and most of the stock exchanges are in the green zone.
Today the publication of GDP growth in the US for the quarter is expected. It is forecasted that this figure will be 2.6%, which is lower than in the previous quarter, which amounted to 3.4%.
Energy prices after yesterday's trading session moved away from the peaks and decreased by approximately 0.3%. Today we expect the publication of data on the volume of crude oil reserves in the US.
